leafy ; leaves many, enuTorm, glaucous, radical ones equi- 

 tandy imbricate towards their bale, Item ones remote, llem- 

 embracing, gradually becoming fhorter. Flower fafcicles many, 

 ferule, lax, alternately and rather clofely difpofed on a fome- 

 -what flexuofe rachis in a longifh fpike ; involucres many- 

 flowered ; outer valve or fpathe broad-ovate, largeft, green, 

 becoming membranous towards the edge, and generally purplifh ; 

 inner ones membranous. Pedicles about equal to the outer 

 fpathe ; corolla fubcampanulately patent ; fegments uniform, 

 cuneateJigulate, obtufe, mucronate, outer ones twice the 

 broadeft ; ungues urceolately convergent ; laminae rotately 

 patent ; filaments fcarcely equal to the ungues, connate for 

 nearly three parts of their length into a fub triquetral tube, 

 beyond which they are diftintt and diverge ; anthers fhort, 

 incumbent, round-oblong ; ftyle the length of the monadelph- 

 ous part of the filaments, fligmas equal to about half the length 

 of the ilyle, very flender, ftraight, turbinately patent; germen 

 fliort, obovate-triquetral, with a broad naked fummit ; capfule 

 ovate oblong, as are the valves; feeds from about fix to eight 

 in each cell, round and fomewhat uneven. 



Thrives in the open ground, but is ufually treated as a 

 hardy greenhoufe plant, as which it flowers and feeds in 

 abundance; through Dr. Smith we learn, that it was fent 

 to this country from Italy by Mr. P. Stephens, and that its 

 habitat was then unknown; but from Cavanilles we find 

 that it is a native of Mexico, whence it was brought to the 

 Botanic Garden, in Valencia, where it grows in the open 

 ground with many other plants from the fame parts. It has 

 no fcent. G. 



CORRIGENDUM. 

 No. 654, I. 3, pro " caterii" lege •• catera.* 



